Chapter Eleven The Triumph of Ideology over Politics
1. Murray, Red Scare , is the definitive source for the early 1920s. [BACK]
2. Wohl, "American 'Geopolitical Masterhand.'" [BACK]
3. Levering, American Opinion , chap. 3. But see Sirgiovanni, "Undercurrent of Suspicion," for evidence that many Americans did not relax their hostility toward Russia during the war. [BACK]
4. Irons, "Cold War Crusade," 76.
5. Ibid., 78-82. [BACK]
4. Irons, "Cold War Crusade," 76.
5. Ibid., 78-82. [BACK]
6. Jefferson, "Rhetorical Restrictions," chaps. 3-4. [BACK]
7. Irons, "Cold War Crusade," 79-80.
8. Ibid., 79. [BACK]
7. Irons, "Cold War Crusade," 79-80.
8. Ibid., 79. [BACK]
9. "Two Thousand Reds Hold U.S. Jobs, Priest Asserts," Washington Post ,
March 11, 1946; "Rep Rees to Ask Congressional Probe of Communists in U.S. Agencies Here," Washington Post , March 12, 1946. [BACK]
13. O'Reilly, Hoover and the Un-Americans , chaps. 3-4. [BACK]
14. Lattimore's ONA articles all appeared in the York (Pennsylvania) Gazette and Daily . No other paper carried them all. All citations to these ONA articles are to that paper; dates are those of publication. The Justice Department report is analyzed in chapter 26. [BACK]
15. For a lurid account of the Gouzenko case and the Soviet espionage apparatus of which he was a part, see Pincher, Too Secret, Too Long . [BACK]
16. Ray Richards, "Prof. Owen Lattimore's Job under Probe by House sub-Committee," Baltimore News-Post , June 7, 1946. [BACK]
17. FBI/OL, 173, 2418. The Chicago Journal of Commerce piece was traced back by the FBI to Today's World Publishing Company in St. Louis. Today's World had a brief existence from June 1946 to March 1947; it was founded by Virgil A. and Charles F. Kelly and supported by the Knights of Columbus. The FBI was not certain of this connection, however; Serial 2418 notes that the connection was only the "opinion" of Virgil Kelly. [BACK]
18. Goodman, The Committee , 184. [BACK]
19. Caute, Great Fear , 26. [BACK]
20. Oshinsky, Conspiracy So Immense , 50-51. [BACK]
21. Goodman, The Committee , 185.
22. Ibid., 186-87. [BACK]
21. Goodman, The Committee , 185.
22. Ibid., 186-87. [BACK]